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Gatehouse of Fleet, Birtwhistle Mills View showing remains of mills

SC 634747

Description Gatehouse of Fleet, Birtwhistle Mills View showing remains of mills

Date 31/10/1964

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 634747

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Birtwhistle Mills, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries & Galloway The mills on this site were founded in about 1785 by Birtwhistle & Co, a Yorkshire firm, to use Arkwright's patents for cotton spinning. The firm built two mills on the banks of the Water of Fleet, and a third was added later by a Mr McWilliam. This shows the roofless, ivy-clad ruin of the lower Birtwhistle mill, from the south-east. Despite appearances, the walls of this building were fairly intact. The large mid-breast waterwheel which drove the mill was on the left gable. These mills were out of production by 1850, when they were reconstructed as a bobbin mill by William & Thomas Helme of Dalbeattie. The bobbins were used in textile mills for a variety of purposes. The Gatehouse of Fleet mill was ruinous by 1964, but the lower mill was rebuilt as the 'Mill on the Fleet' in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/64/2/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/634747

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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